I could see the Sinai way have a by manufacturing facility developed for growing stem cells from patients to go back into patients. One of the problems we have is keeping the stem cells like a stem cell. After a while, way came up with a concept that hadn't really been thought about before, which is manufacturing or making cells in space in zero G. And there's some preliminary evidence from previous space flights to the put sells out there that show the cells, first of all, seem to proliferate better. They grow faster in zero G, and they don't have as many mutations that they pick up on Earth. It's funny that there's something about zero G that allows the cells to divide more efficiently. You gotta look to the future. You you're never gonna expand or do anything different if you just think about where we are today. Unless we way a species in 1000 years, we're not going to survive unless we explore outside of Earth and start to understand how did live in zero G. That's why we're doing it. We're futurists and we're looking to create, you know, the basis for experiments. It will get us on long spaceflights, Maybe making sales much better in his face and then coming back toe help patients down here with serious diseases in the country right now.

Related video above: The future of medicine could live in outer spaceThe U.S. military’s mystery space plane rocketed into orbit again Sunday, this time with an extra load of science experiments. It’s the sixth flight of an X-37B, a solar-powered plane that's flown by remote control without a crew. Officials aren't saying how long the spacecraft will remain in orbit this time or the purpose of the mission. The previous mission lasted a record two years, with a touchdown shrouded in darkness at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last year. The winged spacecraft resembles NASA’s old shuttles, but is considerably smaller at 29 feet long. The one just launched features an extra compartment for experiments, including several for NASA. The Air Force has two of these reusable space planes.Since the first flight in 2010, the space planes had logged a combined 2,865 days in orbit as of Sunday. That's seven years and 10 months.Delayed a day by bad weather, this marks just the second rocket launch for the newly established Space Force. In March, it hoisted a national security satellite.United Launch Alliance, which provided the Atlas V rocket, dedicated Sunday's launch to the health care workers and others who are working on the front lines of the pandemic. The company said it followed health advice for the launch. Many of the flight controllers wore masks and were spread out. The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station has an exceptionally fast turnaround for its next launch. Before dawn Monday, SpaceX will attempt to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites for global internet service. It will be SpaceX's last flight before its first astronaut launch, scheduled for May 27 from next-door Kennedy Space Center.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Related video above: The future of medicine could live in outer space

The U.S. military’s mystery space plane rocketed into orbit again Sunday, this time with an extra load of science experiments.

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It’s the sixth flight of an X-37B, a solar-powered plane that's flown by remote control without a crew. Officials aren't saying how long the spacecraft will remain in orbit this time or the purpose of the mission.

The previous mission lasted a record two years, with a touchdown shrouded in darkness at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last year.

The winged spacecraft resembles NASA’s old shuttles, but is considerably smaller at 29 feet long. The one just launched features an extra compartment for experiments, including several for NASA. The Air Force has two of these reusable space planes.

Since the first flight in 2010, the space planes had logged a combined 2,865 days in orbit as of Sunday. That's seven years and 10 months.

Delayed a day by bad weather, this marks just the second rocket launch for the newly established Space Force. In March, it hoisted a national security satellite.

United Launch Alliance, which provided the Atlas V rocket, dedicated Sunday's launch to the health care workers and others who are working on the front lines of the pandemic.

The company said it followed health advice for the launch. Many of the flight controllers wore masks and were spread out.

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station has an exceptionally fast turnaround for its next launch.

Before dawn Monday, SpaceX will attempt to launch another batch of its Starlink satellites for global internet service. It will be SpaceX's last flight before its first astronaut launch, scheduled for May 27 from next-door Kennedy Space Center.

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.